In an effort to make their cruises more popular, VODOHOD River Cruises decided to bring fluffy cats on board the Nikolay Chernyshevsky, dress them up in maritime uniforms and let them roam freely about the cabins in a floating cat cafe of sorts. The feline ferry experiment was incredibly successful and cruises from Moscow to St. Petersburg are more popular than ever.

Heart-melting crew: Russian sailors ‘hired’ cats to make river cruises more popular! …Proved to be quite successful.